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Harry Nelson Pillsbury

Harry Nelson Pillsbury
Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player (d. 1906)

Harry Nelson Pillsbury was a leading American chess player. At the age of 22, he won the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, one of the strongest tournaments of the time, but his illness and early death prevented him from challenging for the World Chess Championship.

5 December 1872

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